Histoire / Histoire par pays / Afrique

Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars

de John Laband

The Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars unravels and elucidates Zulu history during the 50 years between the initial settler threat to the kingdom and its final dismemberment and absorption into the colonial...

Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone

de Magbaily C. Fyle

This new edition is based primarily on recent research on the country, but covers the earliest known inhabitants, the colonial era, and the period of independence including the very confusing turmoil of the...

Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen)

de Hsain Ilahiane

Through the use of maps, a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions,...

Historical Dictionary of Mauritania

de Anthony G. Pazzanita

The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Mauritania_through its chronology, introductory essay, maps, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places,...

Historical Dictionary of Guinea

de Thomas O'Toole & Janice E. Baker

Thoroughly updated and extensively revised, this 4th edition provides a very solid and substantial guide to a better understanding of this richly endowed but poorly understood nation. Students and others seeking...

The Lost City of Solomon and Sheba: An African Mystery

de Robin Brown-Lowe

In the heart of south-central Africa lies an ancient and ruined civilization comprising several thousand stone structures - many as large as modern towns - all surrounded by thousands of abandoned gold mines....

Blindness and the Visionary: The Life and Work of John Wilson

de John Coles

John Wilson did more than anyone else to prevent and cure blindness, and help blind people, throughout the world between the 1940s and his death in 1999. In addition, he made a significant contribution to the...

Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia

de Richard A., Jr. Lobban

TheHistorical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubiacovers the period of Nubian history from the Paleolithic to the end of Medieval Christianity. It includes the rapidly expanding field of Nubian archaeology...

Historical Dictionary of Nigeria

de Toyin Falola & Ann Genova

Since independence in 1960, Nigeria has undergone tremendous change shaped by political instability, rapid population growth, and economic turbulence. The Historical Dictionary of Nigeria introduces Nigeria's...

Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia

de Thomas P. Ofcansky & David H. Shinn

An easily accessible reference guide for Ethiopian historical events, important persons, geographical locations, ethnic groups, key issues, and common ephemera, containing numerous cross-references for related...

Historical Dictionary of Algeria

de Phillip C. Naylor

The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is the second largest country in Africa. This, coupled with its location near Europe and its prized hydrocarbons (oil and gas), continues to increase Algeria's international...

Historical Dictionary of the Gambia

de Arnold Hughes & David Perfect

The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of The Gambia_through its chronology, introductory essay, appendixes, map, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons,...

Canadian Foreign Policy in Africa: Regional Approaches to Peace, Security, and Development

de Edward Ansah Akuffo

For the first time, Edward Akuffo combines historical and contemporary material on Canada's development and security policy while analysing the linkage between these sets of foreign policy practices on the African...

Community of Insecurity: SADC's Struggle for Peace and Security in Southern Africa

de Laurie Nathan

Exploring the formation, evolution and effectiveness of the regional security arrangements of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Community of Insecurity examines the vital issues of why the SADC...

The Commonwealth Brand: Global Voice, Local Action

de Victoria te Velde

This book examines Commonwealth identity through the lens of its membership criteria, its recent enlargement and its constant reincarnation. In so doing it exposes various shortcomings in current thinking about...

J.M. Coetzee's Austerities

de Graham Bradshaw & Michael Neill

Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume seeks to align the South African dimension of Coetzee's writing with his "late modernist" aesthetic. It includes essays exploring...

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading

de Brendon Nicholls

This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong's fiction. Brendon Nicholls argues that the mechanisms of gender subordination are strategically crucial to Ngugi's ideological...

Hannibal: The Ultimate Warrior. Bad to the Bone

de Joseph Peebles & Lynn Lees

In 234 B.C., after the first Punic War, Carthage, Africa had chosen to send the general, Hamilcar Barca, to Spain to defend against continued Roman aggression. After several major scrimmages with the Roman army,...

Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak

de Jean Hatzfeld & Linda Coverdale

"To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk–it is part of being a moral adult."

–Susan Sontag

In the late 1990s, French author and journalist...

Liberia and Independent Africa, 1940s to 2012: A Brief Political Profile

de D. Elwood Dunn

A brief discussion of Liberia's history, political development, civil wars, post-civil war recovery, and varied relationships with African nations during the administrations of presidents William V. S. Tubman,...